Australia

Who says being popularist doesn’t pay?
Fetching $1.6 million under the hammer, Leonard Joel’s recent Pro Hart auction was a sellout.

The multilingual voices of Australia's next generation of writers
Australian kids are writing and publishing books in Nuer, Dinka, Arabic, Tetun, Fataluku & Mandarin as well as English.

Chinese acrobats join Fruit Flies for Borderville
A celebration of performance and place marks 35 years of the Flying Fruit Fly Circus.

10-minute bites on Asian Art a worthy chew
Former Asialink director, Alison Carroll, walks us through Asian art in a new series screened on ABC1 that targets schools.

SLAVE to good art
Christian Capurro’s new phone-video projection tips a hat to the minimalist light artist Dan Flavin, in an exhibition at ACCA.

Japan's erotic art tradition exposed
How different is circulating a 3D digital scan of a vagina from displaying a 17th Century Shunga print? Japan's obscenity…

Adelaide audiences set for a Wilde time
A new production of The Importance of Being Earnest is set to delight audiences all over again.

MTC announces multi-million partnership with Crown Resorts Foundation
The five-year, $2.5-million-dollar partnership has the support of the philanthropic wing of global entertainment group Crown.

Art Trams: Wooden trains on Route 67
Melbourne’s art scene will be given a boost as new winners of its Art Trams program are announced.